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Regionless game consoles

  • PlayStation 4Sony stood on the E3 2013 stage and promised no restrictions on trading PS4 games.
  • PlayStation 3Sony lost more than US$240 on every PlayStation 3 it sold at launch.
  • Nintendo SwitchPlayers found a hidden golf game inside the Nintendo Switch. It was a tribute to Satoru Iwata, who programmed NES Golf.
  • PlayStation 5The PlayStation 5 beat the PS4's record launch within two weeks. Sony called it its largest launch ever.
  • PlayStation PortableThe PlayStation Portable was the only handheld console to use an optical disc as its main storage.
  • Xbox Series X and Series SMicrosoft built the Xbox Series X and Series S together so every game would run on both. Planning began around 2016.
  • Xbox OneThe Xbox One reveal spent over thirty minutes on television before showing a single game.
  • PlayStation VitaThe PlayStation Vita's Japanese sales fell 78% in its second week. It had sold over 300,000 units in week one.
  • Game Boy AdvanceThe Game Boy Advance sold 81,000 units in its first UK week, beating the PlayStation 2's record of 20,000.
  • Game Boy ColorThe Game Boy Color began as a shelved color prototype called Project Atlantis.
  • Game BoyNintendo's president canceled the Game Boy on the spot in 1988. One engineer kept working on its screen anyway.
  • Nintendo DSNintendo called its own Nintendo DS an experimental "third pillar" before launch. It went on to sell 154 million units.
  • Nintendo Switch 2Nintendo Switch 2 sold more than 3.5 million units within four days of its debut.

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